Let's face facts: everyone enjoys winning.

And the only thing better than winning is to win quickly!

Opponents of all levels will make mistakes in the early part of the game. A key skill is to recognise these critical moments as they happen and to exploit the mistakes with maximum efficiency. Equally, it's essential to avoid making these same errors yourself.

In this book, Grandmaster Simon Williams presents 50 entertaining games, every one of which is decided in fewer than 25 moves. Williams examines all the typical mistakes chess players make in the opening and middlegame. He offers advice on how to punish them and provides valuable guidelines on how to avoid falling into similar traps yourself.

Every game supplies the reader with a simple and instructive lesson on how to improve your chess.

• Enhance your opening and middlegame skills
• Learn to identify, avoid and exploit errors
• Ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players
  
  

  Content:
  005 Introduction

  013 1 The Exposed King

  037 2 Exploiting an Advantage in Development

  061 3 Punishing the Pawn-Grabbers

  081 4 Gambit Play

  105 5 Play with Purpose!

  130 6 Crossed Wires

  145 7 Missing the Danger

  163 8 Unnecessary Pawn Moves

  176 9 Super h-pawn Power

  190 Index of Openings

  191 Index of Complete Games